Reflection/Synthesis:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

1. Plants need energy and matter to grow. Where do plants get their ENERGY?
2. Where do plants get their MATTER?
3. Where do plants get their FOOD (be careful - this is a trick question)?
4. Why are plants called Producers?
5. What would happen if plants didn't have a way to get energy?
6. What would happen to animals if there were no plants to eat?
7. What are some of the LIVING components of a plant "system"? (A plant "system" is everything that a plant needs to survive and everything it produces.)
8. What are some of the NON-LIVING components of a plant "system"?
9. In what ways do the components of the system interact?
10. What matter is transported in and out of the plant system?

Answers:

1. Plants get their energy from the sun and carbon dioxide. These things make the plants grow.
2. Plants get there matter from the same place as in said in # 1, carbon dioxide and the sun .
3. Plants get there food from the same place as i said in #1, the sun and carbon dioxide.
4. Plants are called producers because when the sun shines on them it makes them grow. Unlike producers consumers grow of of plants or animals around them 
5. If plants did not have a way to get energy they would probably shrivel up and die because the energy is what they need to grow and keep themselves healthy.
6. If there were not plants to eat the herbivores would become extinct because they would die of hunger, the omnivores would probably turn into carnivores, and the carnivores would be perfectly fine because they only eat other animals.
7. Some living components of a plants system are the leaves because those grow with the plants .
8. Some non-living components of a plants system are the dirt,water,oxygen,and carbon-dioxide.
9.  These components interact with eachother i some ways. For example, water interacts with the soil/dirt and the plant because when the water soaks in the soil the nutrients in the soil come out and they help the plant grow to be strong. .
10. The matter that is transported in and out of the plant system is oxygen.
    
    

Plants:

• Grass
• Trees
• Bushes
• Flowers

Plants need:

• Carbon dioxide
• Water
• Sunlight
• Soil nutrients
• Nitrogen
• Phosphorus
• Potassium - Helps them grow

Were do they get these things:

• From their roots​
• Oxygen comes from the air
• Light comes from lights inside or sunlight

​Energy is measured in calories. 

Animals:

• Squirrels - Food, Water
•  Worms
• Centipede
• Pill-Bugs
• People
• Birds 

Animals need:

• Water
• Oxygen
• Shelter/Warmth
• Food - Carbon
• Sleep

Were do they get these things:

• Ponds, lakes, rivers, fountains, and puddles​
• Carnivores get it from other animals
• Herbivores get it from plants
• Omnivores get it from both

Where do we get our energy from?:

• Food - Without sleep we can not convert it into energy​
• Our matter comes from food too

Human food label:

1. You can find the amount of energy per serving under the amount per severing. The amount of energy you get from your food is the amount of calories that are in the food.
2. You can found the matter under the calories where the daily values are listed.
3. You can find the list of ingredients under all of the nutrition facts that are listed.

The pet food label:

1. You can find the list of ingredients on the top of the label unlike most human labels where the ingredients are listed on the bottom.
2. You can find the percentages of the different types of matter under the ingredients and they are list in order of what has the most to what has the least.  

Answers:

1. I learned that When you look at a food label you see that there are many things on it that you never thought there was in that food. For example, I never knew there was sugar in tomato soup.
2. The milk label. The fat the protein and the sodium comes from the actual cow itself. To me it is weird how half of the things on the label don't even come from the cow. 
3. The potassium comes from a plant the sugar comes from a plant and I think that is all that comes from plants on that nutrition label.
4. I noticed that the pet food has mostly food from animals and some of the food in that nutrition label is from human food like brown rice. Unlike dog food human food has a lot of ingredients that come from plants. They both have fats, vitamins, and proteins in them.  
5. Worms eat the nutrients in the soil, the remains of dead animals, and bacteria under the ground. I think they get matter, warmth, and energy. 

Reflect & Synthesize:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

1. What does food provide to animals, including humans?
2. Do the pet food and human food have the same nutrients? In what ways are they different?
3. Does a higher calorie count mean a food is better for pets to eat? What makes pet owners think that?
4. What is it in food that helps us repair our bodies and grow?
5. What in food helps us move and stay warm?
6. In what way does energy transfer when animals eat food?
7. Look at the nutrition label below for milk. How much energy is in the food?
8. What matter is in the food?

Answers:

1. Food provides energy, matter, and warmth to both humans and animals. I think the 3 things it provides are really important because if we did not have those things we would not grow,stay warm, or have energy.
2. Human food and animal food do have the same nutrients other wise nothing would be able to live. They are different in some ways to because humans probably need a little more protein and vitamins than animals. 
3. Yes, a higher calorie count means there is more energy in it. The pet owners probably think that way because they know that it is transferred into many things for your pet to survive.
4. The thing in our bodies that helps us grown and repair our bodies is ENERGY.  The energy helps us grow, and repair our bodies. 
5. like I said the ENERGY in food helps us move and stay warm. 
6. It does the same things as humans do it turns into warmth,helps us move, repair there bodies, and grow. 
7. There is 160 per cup. If you think about it that is not that much. 
8. Everything in this food is matter because matter is a liquid,gas, or solid.   

Reflect & Synthesize:
Answer the following questions in your blog post. Remember to have at least one follow-up sentence for each question, when possible.

1. What do living things get from their ecosystems?
2. What evidence do you have to support your answer to Question 1?
3. What does the term ecosystem mean, based on your experience in this lesson? (Don't use the definition from the BIG IDEA here. Put it into your own words.)
4. Brainstorm at least one question you have about Ecosystems that you hope you learn from this unit.
5. Look at the image below that shows a portion of a forest ecosystem. Name at least five components (living or non-living things) of the ecosystem that you can either observe directly or infer. 
6. What are three (or more) interactions that might occur in this portion of the forest ecosystem?